Medardo Rosso quotes

Medardo Rosso quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“What I strive most to achieve in art is to make you forget the material. The sculptor must... communicate whatever struck his sensibility, so that a person beholding his work may experience in its entirety the emotion felt by the artist while he observed nature.”
-- Medardo Rosso

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“What the artist must aim at above all else is this: to produce, by any process whatever, a work which by the life and humanity emanating from it communicates to the beholder . . . .”
-- Medardo Rosso

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“When I make a portrait,I cannot limit it tothe lines of the head, for that head belongs toa body, it exists ina setting which influences it, it is part of a totality that I cannot suppress. The impression you produce upon me is not thesame if I catchsight of youalone ina gardenor if Isee you in the midst of a group of other people, in a living room or on the street.”
-- Medardo Rosso

Source : Quoted in Edmond Claris De l'impressionisme en sculpture, 'Medardo Rosso' (1902).

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